Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-05 | Page 26 | Rinch Hitting Star in Grand Opera Roles

Pinch Hitting Star in Grand Opera ftoles . '. Br MARIAX Hitft NEW YORK. Aug. Tbe pinch h!ttf f grand opera ts what they call FYs aces psralia, , popular American soprano. Pinch hitting, an admit, baa put her whn eha I today. lUr ablHt jr to Jump into a role at a moment's nolle and eavs a performance tbat - '' ''.V -eTiiAivcars rrai-T, would otherwise? have to be post-1 post-1 poned haa mada her one of the inoet ' valuable artists at ths Metropolitan. Before she was admitted to the company she had to know a definite number of roles and be ready to appear ap-pear on limited notice. But aha didn't satisfy herself with knowjna- iust those aha waa supposed lo now. Bhe added to her stock, until today to-day she has tha biggest repertoire of any Metropolitan atar. "It's worth while being pinch hitter," ahe.aaya, "beceuee when there la aa Important performance on hand and the principal Is Indts-nosed, Indts-nosed, vou sea some of tha wild eat aourrylnf poeelble. Muat th opera be poetponed? Caa anyone tl laT Who'll co to bat? "Well. If you ara th pereoa selected se-lected to save th day you win aa opportunity not only to play aa Important Im-portant role, but yon appear ltl all th odd In your Jaeor. Yo9 hare aolhlsc t loa and ererythlog to rain." Th fair lncer bellerea (hat the pinch bitter principle appllea to all walka of life. "You ounht to be able to o th lob you ar blr4 for." ah atatea. "That's only honest of you. Hut when you tak the time and effort to learn more than you ar paM for. and prov yourself able to o om thins; n on expected you to do, yu ar volnr nor, than half way to greet succs. "Often I' aen ailrl In th busl-neea busl-neea world oh th pinch hltl(n ey.lem to make a Job valuable aad lucrative that didn't start out to a anything at alt. It's my firm conviction con-viction that vryon should start at th bottom, but that o oa ad lay ther. .... "Sooner or latr opportunity puta you oa hla calling list, and you'd batter be there with th glad hand when he does," she concluded philosophically.